Cambodia: The Rural Poor are Receiving Free Heath Care in Preah Vihear
Siv Mao, 25, just had a caesarian operation. She feels some discomfort but is smiling. Her newborn baby is sleeping fitfully beside her and she says: “They saved our lives and I’m happy.”
Ms. Mao encountered complications in her pregnancy and doctors knew she could not
Semi-skilled builders see wages drop, report says
Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia.
A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year
Cambodia remains on US ‘watch list’ for trafficking
Cambodia remains on a watch list at the US State Department, for failing to do enough to combat human trafficking. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department kept Cambodia a “tier 2” country.
Neou Vannarin
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/2883601.html
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port to push rice exports
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to buy a rice-polishing machine from China, and will also look to build a rice storage facility in Kandal province.
These moves, officials said, were intended to push along Cambodia’s rice trade during a period of uncertainty for the industry.
Facilities
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012060856663/Business/ppap-to-push-rice-exports.html
Corruption targeted by $2.5 million program
Transparency International Cambodia is set to step up its presence in the Kingdom with the launch of a $2.5 million three-year program to monitor and record corruption.
On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean), Cambodia ranks 2.1, according to the organisation,
Factory workers hold out for more
Little more than a week after garment workers were granted a US$10 monthly increase in allowances and bonuses, thousands of workers at a number of factories joined strikes with a clear message yesterday: they need more.
Workers rallied outside factory gates and some marched to the
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072057529/National-news/workers-hold-out-for-more.html
Factory allegedly hires thugs to hurt strikers
A garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday denied hiring a group of 10 “gangsters” to beat and injure workers as they protested.
Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) official Ney Bunthoeun said a gang of thugs hired by Haiyun garment factory bosses
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012052256309/National-news/factory-thugs-hurt-strikers.html
Fees too high: AirAsia CEO
While AirAsia, one of the world’s largest low-cost airline, is gearing toward an expansion in the region, the company’s chief executive said that serving Cambodia was expensive due to high airport fees.
Airport charges are high and restrictive, as are over-flight fees, compared to other countries in
‘Arbitrary decision’ decried by silenced outlets
The two US-backed media outlets and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasts in Khmer were yanked off the airwaves by government officials before Sunday’s elections aren’t staying silent about the effect of such a move, with one calling it a giant step backward for
Thai firm says Xayaburi project has begun
The controversial Xayaburi hydro-electric dam project in northern Laos may have already begun, despite countries, including Cambodia, requesting further studies to assess possible negative effects on Lower Mekong communities.Thai development firm Ch.Karnchang said it was due to begin building the dam on March 15 after finalising a
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041955661/National-news/worrying-dam-claims.html
Business group to support women
Cambodia’s first association for expanding business opportunities and financing for women was launched on Saturday.
The Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association would seek to enhance the competitiveness of businesswomen in the growing ASEAN market, which was set to integrate by 2015, Seng Takakneary, president of the new
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012031955103/Business/business-group-to-support-women.html
Cambodia highlights opportunities, challenges of upcoming ASEAN Community
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday underscored the major opportunities and challenges of the ASEAN Community, which will be realized by the end of this year.
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/14/c_134713139.htm
Cambodian goods to be certified
The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) will begin promoting the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) certifications by the end of 2012 in an effort to educate people about certified goods, according to ministry officials.
The program is in order to boost consumer confidence
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070657245/Business/cambodian-goods-to-be-certified.html
Naga Lottery to launch
A new lottery company, Naga Lottery owned by the same company that operates Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld, will launch its first product on June 8, an official press release said yesterday.
The company was licensed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in October last year said executive director
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012060756644/Business/naga-lottery-to-launch.html
Tough times for telecom bosses in 2012
The year 2012 has seen a number of changes of personnel within different companies in Cambodia, particularly in the telecommunications sector, but also in the insurance and banking industry.
According to In Channy, ACLEDA Bank’s CEO and vice chairman of the International Business Chamber Cambodia, the
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010160558/Business/tough-times-for-telecom-bosses-in-12.html
Government to cut power subsidies
The government will drop subsidies for high electricity use, after the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) reported losses of US$3 million between January and May this year.
Households consuming more than 200 KW/h per month will no longer receive a 100 to 200 riel per KW/h
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012070657247/Business/govt-to-cut-power-subsidies.html
South China Sea centre of ASEAN talks again
There was a sense of déjà vu at the Peace Palace yesterday as a week of largely closed-door ASEAN meetings kicked off in earnest with the same contentious issue that so dominated April’s ASEAN Summit: a code of conduct for the South China Sea.
With China
SL employees back to work after resolution
A resolution reached on Monday in the wake of a violent strike at two SL Garment factories that supply Levi’s and Gap resulted in employees returning to work yesterday – for the second time in days.
Ek Sopheakdey, a Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union
$4m restaurant reflects growing Chinese presence in Cambodia
Old Place Seafood, a Chinese restaurant that cost $4 million, has opened in Phnom Penh.
A representative of the restaurant, which is opposite the Chinese embassy, said the growing number of Chinese people in the Kingdom had justified such an investment.
Luu Meng, president of the
Rail freight services begin
Railway freight services between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas commune, in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas district, the location of a Siam Cement factory about 40 kilometres north of Kampot town, began yesterday, finally putting the Toll Royal Railways concession on an earning basis.
According to Toll Royal Railways
